Import from Mendeley

If your references live in Mendeley, you can bring them into your Papero library. You sign in at Mendeley, allow Papero to read your library, and Papero imports it. Your Mendeley folders become Papero collections.

An import is a one-time copy. When you add documents in Mendeley later, import again to bring them over. Sources already in your library, such as ones with the same DOI, are matched and not added twice.

Import your library

You need a confirmed email address in Papero. If you have not confirmed yours yet, Papero says Verify your email address before importing from Mendeley.

1. In the sidebar, press Library.
2. To put every imported source in one collection, click that collection on the left first.
3. Press Import, then From Mendeley. Papero takes you to Mendeley.
4. Sign in to Mendeley, if you are not signed in already, and allow Papero to read your library.
5. Mendeley sends you back to the Library, and Papero imports your documents.

You can also start from Settings > Integrations: on the Mendeley card, press Import from Mendeley. An import started there does not go into a collection you picked, but your folders still become collections.

When the import is done, a notice says what happened, such as "Imported 120 from Mendeley (8 already in your library, 2 skipped)." If your Mendeley library has no references yet, Papero says so.

Your folders become collections

Papero reads your Mendeley folders and puts each document in the collection of the same name. It uses a collection you already have when the name matches, and creates the rest. The notice says how many collections the sources went into, and how many are new.

Papero collections have no levels, so a folder inside another keeps its own name. When the same name is used under two parents, Papero adds the parent's name in front.

There is a limit on how many collections you can keep. When you reach it, the documents of the folders Papero could not make into collections are still imported, without that collection. If Papero cannot read your folders, the documents come in without them. Import again later to sort them.

Importing again also sorts the sources you already have into the collections of their folders.

What comes over

From each Mendeley document, Papero keeps:

• the title and the authors;
• the year;
• the journal, book or website it appeared in;
• the volume, issue, pages and publisher;
• the DOI and one web link.

Papero maps each document type to one of its own: a journal article, book, chapter, conference paper, thesis, report or web page. A type Papero does not know becomes a report. ISBNs, notes and attached files are not imported. You can add each paper's PDF later. See Upload PDFs.

There is a limit on how many documents one import brings in. Papero takes the most recently changed first and says when it reached the limit. Your library also has a limit on how many sources it holds, and Papero says when an import reached it.

How Papero handles your Mendeley account

You sign in on Mendeley's own page, so Papero never sees your Mendeley password. Papero uses the access Mendeley gives it for this one import, and lets it go as soon as the import is done. Papero keeps no access to your Mendeley account afterwards, so there is nothing to disconnect. The Privacy Policy has the details.

Free and Plus

Importing from Mendeley works the same on Free and Plus, and the new sources show in full in your library on both. To compare the plans, see pricing.

If something goes wrong

• The Mendeley import was cancelled at Mendeley. You did not allow access at Mendeley. Start again when you are ready.
• The Mendeley sign-in expired or did not match. Start the import again. The trip to Mendeley took too long, or Papero could not match it to your account.
• The Mendeley import did not finish. Start it again when you are ready. Nothing was imported.
• The import stopped part way; run it again to get the rest. Run the import again. The sources you have are matched, so nothing is added twice.
• If your Papero session ends while you are at Mendeley, your browser shows a short error. Sign in to Papero again and start the import from the Library.

To bring in references from a file instead, see Import BibTeX and RIS files.

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